melancholics

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n. Plural form of melancholic.

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Examples

But recently, the 1980s pop star Morrissey lead singer of Mancunian melancholics The Smiths told a radio program that he'd like Penguin to publish his autobiography, "but only if they published it as a Classic."

It's the way that Baxter lovingly teases anguish, humor and heart-rending beauty out of clear, unaffected sentences describing the gray-clouded interior worlds inhabited by his cast of largely Midwestern melancholics.

In medieval philosophy, each individual was thought to be dominated by one of the four humors; melancholy, associated with black gall, was the least desirable of the four, and melancholics were considered most likely to succumb to insanity.

He kind of figured that the Klan had a bad image, so he wanted to, you know, ban the "N" word and ban the robes and the hoods and the cross-burnings and -- and replace those things with personality seminars, teaching -- teaching their Klansmen to be -- you know, to work out whether they're melancholics or sanguines, and so on.